- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By Kyle Brasseur2023-03-23T20:20:00
What is “extraordinary” cooperation? How is a self-disclosure deemed “immediate”? With a series of new policy changes at the Department of Justice (DOJ) have come requests from the compliance community for more guidance. Don’t expect the agency to budge.
Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite Jr. of the DOJ’s Criminal Division reiterated in a speech Thursday the agency will not offer prescriptive guidance regarding how it evaluates corporate compliance programs.
“There is no one-size-fits-all approach,” he said. Instead, he addressed ambiguity around certain terms included among the DOJ’s policy changes by pointing to some of the agency’s recent cases and declinations and advising compliance professionals to “see how [the terms] are applied in future cases.”
2023-07-18T19:43:00Z By Kyle Brasseur
Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite Jr. is set to leave the Department of Justice after a tenure highlighted by multiple policy changes intended to empower corporate chief compliance officers.
2023-05-25T19:28:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
The Department of Justice has seen an uptick in self-reported potential misconduct by corporations since it increased incentives for voluntary disclosure, according to Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite Jr.
2023-05-16T19:58:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
Glenn Leon, head of the Department of Justice’s Fraud Section, said “compliance is a very big area of focus” for the agency, during a fireside chat at Compliance Week’s 2023 National Conference.
2025-07-02T18:31:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
Emerging enforcement priorities of the U.S. Department of Justice’s health care fraud division align with the Trump administration’s emphasis on prosecuting transnational criminal organizations and ending opioid trafficking.
2025-07-01T23:26:00Z By Oscar Gonzalez
Since President Donald Trump took office, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has yet to keep up the level of enforcement it had under previous chair Lina Khan. The agency, however, returned to antitrust action in the case of fuel stations, just in time for the July 4th holiday.
2025-06-25T16:29:00Z By Oscar Gonzalez
In May, three commissioners for the Consumer Product Safety Commission were abruptly fired by President Donald Trump and sued for their jobs shortly after. A federal judge has ruled that the commissioners should be reinstated, although it’s unclear whether that ruling may itself be reversed.
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